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Feeding horses

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Feeding horses

Horses were the ‘engines’ of 19th-century transport, essential for the delivery of goods across town. Here, horses feed and rest in Auckland’s Victoria Street in the early 1900s. Horse excrement was one of the defining smells of street life.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: 35-R33

by Frederick George Radcliffe

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Ben Schrader, Street life – Colonial street life, 1840–1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20670/feeding-horses (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 March 2010.